DUNN, Andrew
| Service Number: | 3285 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 April 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Roseborough, England, March 1874 |
| Home Town: | Weston, Cessnock, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Wickham, New South Wales, Australia, 26 July 1932, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 2-119. 75. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Saddler, 3285, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company) | |
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| 22 May 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 3285, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 22 May 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 3285, No 4th Tunnelling Company - Headquarters No 1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 22 May 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 3285, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Sydney | |
| 22 May 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 3285, No 4th Tunnelling Company - Headquarters No 1, HMAT Warilda, Sydney | |
| 3 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 3285, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
91 years ago today, on the Thursday afternoon of the 28th July 1932, Sapper Andrew Dunn, 1st Australian Tunnelling Company (Reg No-3285), miner from Weston, New South Wales and 86 Hannell Street, Wickham, N.S.W. and 9 Charles Street, Wickham, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 56. ANGLICAN 2-119. 75.
Born at Roseborough, England about 1876 to George and Jane Dunn; husband of Annie Dunn nee Dumbleton (married 1897, Stockton, N.S.W., died 9.2.1950, age 72, of 21 Charles Street, Wickham, N.S.W., sleeping here), Andrew enlisted on the 9th April 1916 with No. 4 Tunnelling Company at West Maitland, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A69 Warilda on the 22nd May 1916.
Admitted to hospital 24.8.1917 (diarrhoea), 15.9.1917 (diarrhoea), 22.1.1918 (scabies).
Granted leave from the 12.11.1918 to the 11.12.1918.
Andrew returned home on the 17th April 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 3rd August 1919.
Mr. Dunn’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. The district of Weston did not produce a War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies upon Andrew’s brown granite Commonwealth War Graves’s headstone in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died after Discharge, 27.7.1932.
Officially commemorated – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html...
See Tunnellers - http://www.tunnellers.net/
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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